Chapter 73, Cash-Strapped Hungary

Leopold sneered and asked, "So that's it. Then for what reason have we been summoned here today? Could it be merely to listen to a speech?

I admit that Mr. Kossuth's speech just now was brilliant, but we have all grown tired of such speeches. Why not try a different approach?"

Kossuth's expression was gloomily terrifying. He couldn't exactly say, 'Before, we worried that you were unreliable and could turn traitor at any moment. Now that the Austrian Government has seized your lands, we are all in the same boat.'

Such matters are best understood tacitly. If the truth were fully acknowledged, how could we continue to coexist?

Nobility might seem to have suffered a great loss and be greatly weakened, but do not assume they are like tigers fallen to the plains that can be bullied by dogs; their actual power remains undiminished."

"Your Grace, enough!"